Angelina Jolie tells she would be interested in making her Broadway acting debut next after winning a Tony in June for producing the greatest musical, “The Outsiders.”
“I’d be really shy, but I would really like to. At the AFI Fest screening of her new movie about Maria Callas, “Maria,” she told me, “But if you asked me if I would be singing opera a year ago, I probably would have said no.” Naturally, I would love to, considering I began in theater with Strasberg. However, I doubt if I am good enough in my heart.
I advised her to think of a musical that required seven months of rigorous voice and singing training for “Maria.”
“I don’t know if anybody wants that,” Jolie said with a laugh.
Jolie plays Callas in the drama directed by Pablo Larraín, which follows the opera singer’s final days before she passes away from a heart attack in 1977 at the age of 53. She thought back to her very first singing lesson.
“I’ve been holding a lot for a long time, and that beginning and that sound, and then when that sound would eventually come, it was the best therapy I’ve ever had,” Jolie continued. “Honestly, I think I would tell a lot of people before you try therapy and spend too much time there, go to singing class.”
Jolie claimed that singing’s unanticipated therapeutic benefits could bring about healing. It was really helpful to me. Discovering your own voice within your own body has a primordial quality. There is no way to sing at your full voice and with your full emotion without facing your feelings and limitations, and it brings up certain emotions that you may not have wanted to face.
Of course, it takes opera singers years, if not lifetimes, to perfect not only their sound but also the ability to control their breath. “Towards the end [of filming], when I really belted out as [Callas], I would get very dizzy because I never got full control,” Jolie said.
“Maria” will be available for viewing on Netflix on December 11 and at a few cinemas on November 27. In August, the film made its global premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
